So very pretty! I love the deep color. I have a couple of white crepe myrtles. I love when the blooms drift down... I think of snow.... and it is nearing 100 degrees here. Have a beautiful weekend. Hugs!

Poppy and I were in Wake Forest this morning and I was noticing the Crepe Myrtles were in bloom. There was not even one that could compare to the beauty of yours. The blooms here are skimpy looking. Yours are beautiful!

Thank you for your lovely comments x

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~ Oscar Wilde

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Now winter nights enlargeThis number of their hours;And clouds their storms dischargeUpon the airy towers.Let now the chimneys blazeAnd cups o'erflow with wine,Let well-tuned words amazeWith harmony divine...

~Thomas Campion

"Tell you what I like the best --'Long about knee-deep in June,'Bout the time strawberries meltsOn the vine, -- some afternoonLike to jes' git out and rest,And not work at nothin' else!"

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The Shed..."In the potting shed, our hearts, the pleasures of home, and the glories of the garden merge. Its practical character eases our garden labors. Its romantic nature enriches our lives. Here is peace, and beauty, and a sense of purpose."

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If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.~ Rupert Brooke

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"There is nothing in the world,More beautiful than the forestClothed to its very hollows in snow.It is the still ecstasy of nature,Wherein every spray,Every blade of grass,Every spire of reed,Every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance."- William Sharp

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not madeBy singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

~ Rudyard Kipling

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A British expat transplanted into the lush Tennessee countryside.
Wife, mother, grandma.
The other character in this plot, being Oliver the cat, gingerness and aloof.
I'm a lover of old. Time-worn, antiques, quilts, primitives, heirloom pieces, potting sheds, English literature, poetry, Battenburg lace, blue willow, cottages, white ironstone dishes, English transferware, worn-out picket fences, teapots, old bird houses, moss-covered clay pots, gardening, all creatures great and small.
"And they loaded up their trucks and they moved to Tennessee....hills there are, swimming holes, country stars".